Or more specifically, the ability of state lawmakers, among
other public officials, to buy Alabama and Auburn football tickets at face
value.

On Thursday, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he's comfortable
with the way things are now and that how universities handle their tickets should
be left to universities.

"They are at least paying something for them," Bentley said.
"They are paying face value. They aren't being given those things."

If you're not an elected official, getting tickets to the
Iron Bowl or an SEC championship can be daunting, unless you belong to one of
the two major boosters' clubs. Remarketers online and scalpers on the street
can charge much more than what they paid for the tickets.

Face value and real value are often two different things,
and even if public officials must now pay face value, some believe that's an
unfair privilege the general public doesn't have.

The amended revolving door bill would make that benefit to
Alabama lawmakers illegal.

On Thursday, Bentley said that the face-value ticket benefit
could be useful to state officials for promoting Alabama to businesses.

"If they are going to the ballgame and dealing with economic
development and things of this nature, I have no problem with them doing that,"
Bentley said. "But it has to do somehow with promoting our state, if I allow
anyone in the executive branch to use those tickets – at face value. They still
have to pay for them."